Tyler Garlick
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

It’s fair. I’m also basing a lot of my biases on my market here in Utah and my observations about it online with Google’s messaging.

In Utah, the market is geared towards Angular 1.x, and React. I imagine now that React has messed around with their licensing I think people will be looking again, but I’m not sure they are going to reaching for Angular. I kind feel like they have coupled their wagon to a .net/Microsoft ecosystem with TypeScript.

On top of our market’s biases, every time I teach it in my class, I think to myself. All of these files, and all this syntax to do something so simple. I ponder about how to me it’s a sign of over-engineering. Do we really need dependency injection (JS is a dynamic language), etc? My students without fail point out these things without a discussion about what I’m feeling, and I think they are right.

So is Angular dead? I dunno, but to me it appears that way.

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